The AHRC funded Objects of Immersion created the Living Room of the Future (LROTF) to highlight the future potential of Object Based Media (OBM). OBM allows programme content to change according to unique interactions with audiences. The ‘objects’ in OBM refer to the different assets within a given programme. These include large objects like audio and video used to construct a scene in a drama, and small objects, like an individual frame of video, a caption, or a signer. By breaking down a piece of media into separate objects, attaching meaning to each object, and describing how they can be semantically rearranged, a programme can change to reflect an individual viewer’s unique context.
In un deserto villaggio macedone la cinquantenne Hatidze si arrampica su una collina per controllare le sue colonie di api immerse nella roccia. Rasserenando gli insetti con un canto segreto, manovra delicatamente il favo senza pinze o guanti. Tornata poi nella sua fattoria, si occupa degli altri alveari fatti a mano e della madre costretta a letto, allontanandosi di tanto in tanto per vendere i suoi prodotti. Un giorno, vicino alla sua fattoria, si stanzia una famiglia itinerante e il suo mondo incantato viene disturbato da motori ruggenti, sette bambini urlanti e ben 150 mucche. La situazione è destinata a complicarsi ulteriormente quando Hussein, il patriarca della famiglia itinerante, prende una serie di decisioni che potrebbero distruggere per sempre il modo di vivere di Hatidze.
After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forcing them to resolve a long-standing feud between their villages.
Il giovane monaco Kiril nasconde nel suo convento in Macedonia una ragazza di ceppo albanese che alcuni macedoni vogliono uccidere; la uccideranno invece i suoi. Aleksandar, fotografo macedone che lavora per un'agenzia londinese, torna nel villaggio natio; viene ucciso il marito della sua donna.
A simple story, but larger than life portrayal of the universal human saga represented through Dionis, a retiring biology professor, his wife and his fantasy of turning his unusual car collection into a museum in a small uneventful town.
Godina was ordered to make a short film glorifying the army, but instead made a film about making love, not war. The censors hacked it up, but he managed to save one complete copy.
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
In un isolato villaggio di montagna nella Macedonia del XX secolo, una giovane strega uccide accidentalmente un contadino. Ne prende allora le sembianze per vedere com'è la sua vita, accendendo così in lei la profonda curiosità di sperimentare nuove esistenze dentro i corpi degli altri.
The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...
The story of a famous group of Macedonian terrorists that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century.
100 years since the beginning of First World War. Locality - French cemetery in Bitola. State protocol. There are deputies, ministers, ambassadors, military attaches, consuls, honorary consuls, media present - Priests - Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim. - Military band. Jean Batiste Valerie, an old man of about 77 years of age, arrives in Bitola for the first time. Tiny, petite, with thin and gray hair, arrives late at the sad ceremony held in honor of the fallen French soldiers in the First World War. According to correspondence and information from the French army, his predecessor with the same name and surname must be located somewhere nearby. The ceremony had already begun.
Documentary about frescoes to be found in several churches in Macedonia.
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.
Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.
A day before the earthquake in Skopje, Wily Muller, a German conductor, while passing through the concert meets a young girl Jana, a student from Skopje. After several years they meet again at the "Solidarity Meetings" event, which is held in Skopje, where Wily Muller is a conductor at a concert held on that occasion. Those several days, spent together with the conductor, for Jana mean fulfillment with a kind of reminiscence of her family tragedy experienced during Skopje's earthquake, and also a wondering and search for a way of starting life again, which stopped on the day of the earthquake. Although the possibility of going with Muller is very attractive, Jana stays in Skopje. Her place is beside the young man whom she loves and belongs to, with whom she is related with true love...
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Early Balkan footage.
A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.
Early Balkan footage.